Re: ontape back-up/restore to remote device

John Miller wrote: > > Neil: > > On a restore the tape is open, read to verify that it has the correct > information, > closed to reposition at the begin of the tape, then re-openned. If the > close > did not get completed by the tape device by the time the open is issued any > subsequent reads fail. There is an easy solution to this(if I remeber my > shell script): > > 1. Create a shell script (lets say /work/bin/tape_wait.sh) > #!/bin/sh > /usr/bin/sleep 60; rsh $* > > 2. now in you ontape environment set DBREMOTECMD > to /work/bin/tape_wait.sh > > Hope this helps, > John Miller Thanks John. I had subsequently worked out that the problem was the /dev/rmt/0n (no rewind) device. It works fine with /dev/rmt/0. Informix tech. support told me that this was tough - ie , even on a 40G DLT tape, you can only have one OnLine archive, and it must be the first archive on the tape. I'm not at work, so I can't look up DBREMOTECMD, which I've never used! Regards Neil